Emptoris, Inc.

Emptoris, Inc. Patent applications

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20130198129

METHOD FOR BUILDING AND MAINTAINING TRUSTED SUPPLIER RECORDS - An Enterprise Network includes a master data management (MDM) system that is linked to two or more data sources each of which include means for storing local management information. The MDM system builds a master management information database that is comprised of some or all of the management information stored by the data sources. The master database in the MDM includes master records each of which is comprised of one or more attributes. The MDM system is configured to only update particular master record attributes with selected management information received from a trusted data source.

08-01-2013

20110131228

METHOD & APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING A SECONDARY CONCEPT IN A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS - A Methodology for identifying secondary concepts that are included in one or more documents in a collection of documents is disclosed. Training information is manually created from a subset of a collection of documents and used by a primary concept identification function to process textual information contained in the documents included in the collection of documents to identify primary concepts included in the collection of documents. Each of the primary concepts included in the collection of documents is used as input to a secondary concept identification function which results in the identification of secondary concepts included in each of the primary concepts. A query is generated and used as input to both the primary and secondary concept identification functions and the result of both the operation of both of these functions on the query is compared to the identified secondary concepts. The distance between the query and each of the secondary concepts is determined and those secondary concepts that are within a predetermined distance of the query are displayed.